[APBeta] Re topic 6 in vol 9 issue 24 - alignment stars

[Tim Long]

ASCOM components such as POTH that are actually hubs (not drivers) by
convention return a name property that indicates the real driver that it
is connected to.

	POTH->{Driver's Name property}

I don't think this is documented in any of the standards, but it was
discussed on the ASCOM-Talk group and I'm pretty sure that all the hubs
I'm aware of do this.

So for example if POTH is connected to the Simulator driver, its Name
property will be "POTH->I_Simulator".

You might be able to detect this condition fairly reliably by simply
looking for "->" in the device name.

--Tim Long

-----Original Message-----
From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
[mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Paul Rodman
Sent: 24 January 2009 22:45
To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
Subject: Re: [APBeta] Re topic 6 in vol 9 issue 24 - alignment stars


On Jan 24, 2009, at 02:22 PM, Peter B wrote:

> If the appearance of alignment stars is associated with having a  
> computorised mount selected in resources then I suspect my problem  
> is associated with using the POTH ascom driver - perhaps AP doesn't  
> class this as a computorised mount attached?  I'll try selecting a  
> different mount and see if it fixes the problem.  If that is the  
> case is it possible to change the setup in AP with respect to POTH  
> so it does show alignment stars?  I assume this information is not  
> retrieved from the hand controller by AP but a list in a file?

Correct. Good point. I'll try and figure an elegant way around this  
for ASCOM (not only using POTH).

Paul R.

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